a middle-aged man with a certain broadsheet-columnist cachet
― imago, Monday, 14 December 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
cocaine and ressentiment
― imago, Monday, 14 December 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
that's how i roll
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
wd read noodle vague's jeans-wearing thoughts on the culture wars
― imago, Monday, 14 December 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
i am too old for blue jeans, that's about as much as i know
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
tho i wonder if it's the jeans per se or the jeans/tucked-in shirt combo that reeks
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
have another line and think about what you've just said
― imago, Monday, 14 December 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
The latter definitely, there are jeans for everyone
― scampostiltskin (gyac), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
i've not been mad about blue jeans for a long time tbf, prefer other colours
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
for the last 20 odd years I've wore little else other than .. ahem.. relaxed fit, black 501s, for the last decade usually 2nd hand from e-bay. The last ones I ordered they bloody well sent me w34 l32. I angrily messaged them: I wouldn't have even fitted into those 15 years ago (or 35 years ago if my name was Rod Liddle)
― calzino, Monday, 14 December 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
me neither calz, but yeah i'd go with black
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Black fades so quickly though.
― Godless Tiny Tim (Tom D.), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
til things get brighter i'm the man in grey
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
this is the look to avoid
https://media.apnarm.net.au/media/images/2018/12/14/imagev12c0cf0f7bcafa64f7dd53af2d94ea542-dld8iab9bh7nye2hgr2_t1880.jpg
― Left, Monday, 14 December 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
yeah that's been implicit
― imago, Monday, 14 December 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
that's the spectre that haunts my age yes
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
I've got a shirt like that too :(
― Godless Tiny Tim (Tom D.), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
I have never wore a suit in my life, not even for court appearances or funerals. But I don't do leather jackets either. I remember once seeing Clive Anderson wearing a leather jacket and shades and thinking If I ever looked like that cunt I'd kill myself lol!
― calzino, Monday, 14 December 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
I wear jeans more or less daily. It's shorts that are to be avoided once one passes the age of...let's be extremely generous and say 25.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
Damn my legs are the only part of me that is ripped, lol!
― calzino, Monday, 14 December 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
shorts are comfortable sometimes tho and tbf i'm not a fashion maven, only thinking about what i feel more or less of a twat in
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
I avoid shorts mainly because of a fear of getting bitten by a tick.
― calzino, Monday, 14 December 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
Left's photo reminds me there was a v mean-funny tumblr called "jeans and shoes" (or "jeans and sheuxs" or something)
― loose Orwellian mobs (rob), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
xp
oh yeah wouldn't wear them anywhere where that's a possibility
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
I think my ego has been so thoroughly reduced in the last decade I've barely even got a conception of sartorial embarrassment any more. I'm probably just one stage away from taking a dump in a showroom toilet at B+Q!
― calzino, Monday, 14 December 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
comfort is the main motivator of dress it's gotta be said. maybe the cringe of yr Clarksons is that it looks like they're going for something beyond that?
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
xps to rob don’t know the tumblr but do know the twitterhttps://twitter.com/jeansandsheuxLook as modelled by LOTO herehttps://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NINTCHDBPICT000616596390.jpg
― scampostiltskin (gyac), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpRzybXWMAUGn_q?format=jpg&name=small
omg an early Christmas gift!
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
Hachette have now cancelled publishing Julie Burchill’s forthcoming book The Woke Trials. @boozeandfagz after telling her to shut down her twitter.— Kerstin Rodgers (@MsMarmitelover) December 15, 2020
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
HAHAHAHA
AND HEEEEEEEEERE COME THE THINKPIECES
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 12:59 (three years ago) link
Helen Lewis: don't encourage the plebs to write a book, jEz. And also getting books published is one of the inalienable universal human rights for all.
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:06 (three years ago) link
As hilarious as this is, you really have to wonder what Hachette thought they were getting into commissioning a book by Julie Burchill called "The Woke Trials"
― Gary Sambrook eats substantial meals (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
willing to bet JB can trade up to a better publishing deal with this
(possibly with an even less discerning publisher)
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
well it must have been a business choice rather than artistic one, but jeez does her crap sell that much to make it worth the reputation damage?
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
she was literally a millionaire off of PLATINUM LOGIC etc in the 80s
(which lol i bought and read: not good even as a pulp roman a clef abt joan jett if she'd signed to motown, the very evident inspiration)
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link
everything else merely sells p well within the UK media village i think
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:28 (three years ago) link
simon and schuster gave milo a million-dollar advance iirc!
then he started yanking the actually-paedos-are-good lever lol (also there was a terricially funny courtcase abt it where discovery included them trying to edit the actual manuscript) (JB in the old days was well known as diligent at filing copy that needed little editorial work if you ignored like fact-checking any of the opinions -- viz she can spell and write a good sentence and construct a workable argument)
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
in conclusion publishers don't know what they're doing either and everything is a stupid lottery
But Milo, at the time, was riding high on the alt-right/alt-lite wave. I can see how someone would think publishing a book of his would be very profitable. Burchill's time has passed, surely? If you want a FrEe SpEeCh islamophobia outrage read there's so many others to choose from.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:37 (three years ago) link
Yes, I cannot imagine who - other than, as mark says, UK media types - would be interested in reading a bok (or anything) by Julie Burchill in 2020.
― Godless Tiny Tim (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
small but noisy clan of middle-aged coked-up ressentiment-laced rightwards-liberal north londoners
― imago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
oh you did say the media types actually, my bad
https://productimages.worldofbooks.com/1847490964.jpg
apparently Julie's effort isn't quite up to the standard of the Lawrence Fox book
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
dh lawrence might as well be the absolute fucking patron saint of anti-woke media-types lol
― imago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
^^^my turn at being user Left, everyone must be cancelled
thing is, dh lawrence WAS -
― imago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
unconvinced by this assessment of the works of nottinghamshire dave
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
ah c'mon, these people would kill to be declared legally obscene and have their works publicly banned lol
― imago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
Last time I tried to read Lawrence my teeth were so on edge after a page or two I must've ground them down a few millimetres
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
And no of course the anti woke army don't want to be censored by the law where's the fun in that?
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link